home teacher
Britishnoun
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The columnist is not even a member of Washington's tight Mormon inner circle, though he attends services regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the colony is large, the home teacher really could not do much educational work other than to supervise the attendance of the children at school and to help disentangle family difficulties.
From A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek
When I came home teacher read to me "The School-boy," for it is not in our print.
From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by John Albert Macy
The home teacher often has no higher aim than that the children should learn it by rote—learn to rattle it off like the multiplication table, or the rules of grammar.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
One peasant woman told the writer that this home teacher was a good protector for them, but did not recognize that she was their educator.
From A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek
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